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Having dismissed one New York Film Festival selection about an Argentinian yesterday, I'm pleased today to promote another. If Steven Soderbergh's Che wasn't worth your time, director Lucrecia Martel's A Headless Woman most certainly is (it plays t...

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Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions.
What It Is
Lynda Barry
Drawn & Quarterly
Lynda Barry and Matt Groening
The New Yorker Festival
October 3
Childhood, memory, and fear loom high among the great themes of Lynd...

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In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla ventures into the dragon's lair that is VH1's Hip-Hop Honors, where "the bizarre, the chaotic, and the sublime all lined up exactly once."
Rob Trucks tracks down Jimmy Cobb, the last survivi...

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Nah Right today posts an MP3 of New York poetry-slammer Charles Hamilton entitled "Lacey Duvalle," who I then Googled, to figure out why the picture on Nah Right's blog was of a girl in a bikini. Don't--repeat do not--do this if you're not prepared...

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POP Montreal headquarters photo by Rebecca Smeyne
All in all, the five-day music festival POP Montreal was a triumphant week, and one that got us asking a simple question: WHY IS POP MONTREAL SO MUCH FUN, WHILE OUR OWN CMJ IS MORE LIKE A PAINFUL, ...

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TV on the Radio's Dear Science isn't the only local record you should be excited about this fall. Here's the first of 10 others.
Department of Eagles
In Ear Park
4AD
Department of Eagles, "In Ear Park" (MP3)
Department of Eagles, "No One Does It ...

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Last week's prediction: The Honeydrips?
Uh, take it away, Black Gold: Black Gold is the feeling when it hits your bloodstream, the unease at five a.m. after staying up all night doing things you regret but will do again and again. Black Gold is th...

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If you've seen the T-shirt, you can probably skip the movie. Plenty of folks will be seeking scalped tickets to the New York Film Festival's sold-out screening of Che tonight at the Ziegfeld Theater, but Sound of the City can't recommend you join t...

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With primitive chirps and warbles drawn from the video games of yesteryear so tightly woven in among the distorted guitars, it's easy to feel nostalgic when listening to Anamanaguchi's eight-bit rock, which taps into the audio chips from old Game Bo...

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In the fall of 2002, early in his freshman year at Connecticut's Wesleyan University, Simon O'Connor was walking through the quad, "talking to a girl or something," he recalls. "And I just happened to say out loud, 'I wanna rock!' " A stranger overh...

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One evidently satisfied customer of Friday's just-finished Steely Dan show addresses his three-foot radius on the 72nd Street subway platform: "Just straight music. No fancy crap." He has just left a half-gilded room--the Beacon Theatre--where the l...

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At the start, there's a two-minute ovation just for her posture. Grace Jones is a former model--though we're all a model of something, aren't we?--and the fashion-daft crowd at the Hammerstein Showroom Ballroom celebrates her for maintaining a regal...

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Dark Meat photo by Rebecca Smeyne
Now that the dust has settled, it's time to take a look back at POP Montreal--from multimedia orgies in porn palaces to Neil Young tributes and righteous post-punk from Guelph. If you missed it, here's a cheat shee...

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Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Spiegeltent
Sunday, October 5
So far as New York venues go, Spiegelworld might be one of the strangest. The elaborate traveling cabaret act has taken over Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport for the third summer in a r...

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Hot Chip
Terminal 5
Friday, October 3
Photos by Jesse Reed
Audiences won't mess with their cell phones during a show if you give them something else to do with their hands. The audience at Hot Chip had two other options: hold them in the air, or u...

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Too ugly to be photographed at the New Yorker Festival: The director, elsewhere.
Guillermo Del Toro in Conversation with Daniel Zalewski
The New Yorker Festival
Director's Guild Theatre
Saturday October 4
Aspiring filmmakers gripped their Moleskin...

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Vivian Girls + Dark Meat
Rocks Off Boat Cruise
Friday October 3
Photos by Rebecca Smeyne
On any other night, this would have been the proverbial $7 Todd P double matinee that turns Silent Barn into a sweatbox. So there was only one way you could j...

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If it strikes you as churlish or belated to complain about Sex and the City: The Movie, now out on DVD, consider that the much-needed backlash for another odious summer hit, The Dark Knight, has only recently begun. Sex and the City: The Movie is e...

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I first met visual artist Jack Dylan at POP Montreal a few years ago. He was living with Graham van Pelt, the guitarist for Think About Life and the front man for a band-you-should-love-by-now, Miracle Fortress. At the time, they were both based in...